Open Recommendations

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff attach diagnostic imaging results to the Community Care Consult Result note.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, requires facility community care staff to use the significant findings alert to notify the ordering provider of abnormal diagnostic imaging results.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff make two additional attempts to obtain community providers’ medical documentation within 90 days of the appointment following administrative consult closure.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff process community care providers’ requests for additional services within three business days of receipt.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff incorporate requests for additional services and supporting medical documentation in patients’ electronic health records.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care staff send letters to community providers when they deny requests for additional services.

We recommend the Vice President, Power Operations, Gas, Hydro, and Integration, conduct a business case analysis to determine if hiring additional employees would be less costly than paying overtime.

We recommend the Director, Safety, evaluate Tennessee Valley Authority -Safety Procedure 18.018, Fatigue Management, and Tennessee Valley Authority Standard Programs and Processes 18.001, Safety Program, to determine if fatigue is being effectively identified and mitigated at gas plants.

We recommend the Vice President, Gas, Hydro, and Integration, Power Operations, continue efforts to reach approved Hydro Operations headcount.

We recommend the Vice President, Gas, Hydro, and Integration, Power Operations, evaluate opportunities to mitigate overtime at Hydro Life Extension projects.

We recommend the Director, Safety, evaluate Tennessee Valley Authority Safety Procedure 18.018, Fatigue Management, and Tennessee Valley Authority Standard Programs and Processes 18.001, Safety Program, to determine if fatigue is being effectively identified and mitigated at hydro facilities.

The National Taxpayer Advocate should add an attestation on forms where data about taxpayers whose income exceeds the 250 percent of the poverty level limitation is reported, affirming accuracy, and acknowledging the penalty for making a false statement.

The National Taxpayer Advocate should coordinate with the Treasury Department to request that LITC grant requirements be included within the Treasury Department’s Compliance Supplement to ensure that grant recipients are abiding by the rules in I.R.C. § 7526.

The National Taxpayer Advocate should develop a centralized system to administer the Program Office’s LITC grant management processes and procedures.

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To ensure the required anti-gag provision is included in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents and to rectify the fact that the anti-gag provision has not consistently been included in NDAs, the OIG recommends the Acting Secretary direct OASAM, in coordination with SOL, to send an updated memorandum to all DOL Agency Heads reminding them of the requirement to include the anti-gag provision in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents.

To ensure the required anti-gag provision is included in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents and to rectify the fact that the anti-gag provision has not consistently been included in NDAs, the OIG recommends the Acting Secretary Direct OASAM, in coordination with SOL, to send an email to all DOL employees providing the required anti-gag language and informing all DOL employees that such language should be read as incorporated into any nondisclosure agreement (an agreement requiring an employee not to disclose certain governmental information) they may have signed since November 27, 2012, that did not include the required language.

To ensure the required anti-gag provision is included in all nondisclosure forms, agreements, and related documents and to rectify the fact that the anti-gag provision has not consistently been included in NDAs, the OIG recommends the Acting Secretary revise all existing nondisclosure agreement forms or templates to include the required anti-gag language.

We recommend the Director, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Site Projects, ensure project managers include Supply Chain in the solicitation process.

We recommend the Director, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Site Projects, ensure project managers include Supply Chain in the bid evaluation process.

Remedy $18,804 in unapproved salary and fringe benefit costs charged to the subaward.

Remedy $24,810 in unallowable gift card purchases charged to the VOCA subaward.

Remedy $24,810 in unsupported gift card purchases for which the YWCA of Seattle could not produce adequate documentation.